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Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering

Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu> Sun, 06 June 2021 23:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering
From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu>
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> On Jun 6, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> wrote:
> .....
> But I agree with your conclusion (“the IETF MUST NOT rely on social media platforms”), although for different reasons – I don’t think the IETF should rely on any communication platform where significant revenue of the platform comes from selling or using information about the preferences or behavior of the participants.  

I would like to second Larry's above comment.
I believe the standard term for FB-like business is "surveillance capitalism". I quit FB and do not plan to get back.

Lixia

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